White & Rosé Wines
Tastings and reviews dedicated to white and rosé wines.
Chardonnay 2005 Planeta, the Color of Sicily
We tasted one of the flagship wines of the Planeta winery. This Sicilian producer has only been operating since the mid-1990s, despite the family's agricultural tradition dating back to the 1500s. So much so that ownership of the estate is shared among some fifteen cousins...
Gewurztraminer: a wine with a special status
Valle d'Aosta, or Vallée d'Aoste in French – as Grosjean also notes on its labels – is one of Italy's special statute regions and the smallest in the Belpaese. It is surrounded by the Alps and the four highest peaks in Europe: Monte...
Vitovska Čotar: few words, great taste
Vasja Čotar is not exactly what we would call a "people person" – getting a word out of him is truly difficult! You can't even get him to talk about his wines; he's reserved, blunt, and the way he talks about his products makes them sound like ordinary tavern wines...
Rosa Caolino: a rosè wine born in Sicily
When we hear about Sicily, many wines come to mind, many important producers and wines that have found their place on the Italian market. But the product you are about to drink is a different wine. A rosato born in P...
You Read Solleone, You Drink Passion
The Monferrato Sauvignon by Guido Zampaglione There are wines that, before uncorking them, I convince myself must have the right interlocutor with whom to speak the same language. These are my own false convictions that often push me to take a step back if I'm not sure that what I consider sublime for my palate can be so for others as well...
Soave: Il Casale and Terre Lunghe, Different Twins
As I see it, the role of a sommelier, taster, and wine expert is to share and spread the word as much as possible about products and wineries that deserve it! That's why some time ago I told you about Azienda Agricola Vicentini. Today I want to tell you about two excellent products from the good Agostino...
Catalanesca Montesomma Vesuvio explosion of flavor
With intense colors, intoxicating aromas and marked minerality, the white wines from volcanic territories absorb all the peculiarities of those unique soils, giving us irreplicable wines. In this article we will focus in particular on Vesuvian wines that are...
Gewurztraminer the challenge continues
ITALY-GERMANY, THE CHALLENGE CONTINUES… What are its origins? Some say Alsace, others Termeno in the province of Bolzano. The fact is that for the first time the name appears in the "Book of Nature" by Megenberg, dean of the cathedral of Regensburg, cit...
A magnificent Cervaro della Sala 2005
I want to tell you about another white wine tasted this summer: the Cervaro della Sala 2005. A great wine, created at the Umbrian estate Castello della Sala by Antinori, a wine family now in its twenty-seventh generation across more than six centuries of...
Colli di Lapio: confirmation with the Fiano 2014
In the past we have tasted several expressions of Fiano d'Avellino, one of the finest wines of Campania and the country as a whole. It is often produced by small rural estates such as the Azienda vitivinicola Colli di Lapio, run by Clelia Romano. Pro...
Pecorino Compared
Casalfarneto e Cantina Tollo Having returned to the spotlight only in the last decade, Pecorino is certainly a wine with great potential that is receiving wide acclaim among wine lovers and industry insiders. The grape variety originates...
Gewurztraminer Kastelaz 2014 by Elena Walch, elegance and complexity
Alto Adige, a land of borders and vineyards. A land that has long distinguished itself for a wine sector characterised by a highly evolved cooperative system. Here the social wineries manage to combine the often opposing demands of the highest quality wines produced and the income guaranteed to member growers...